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ahenrick
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 Posted: Sat Sep 21, 2002 5:25 am Post subject: tar: Error.... with /mnt/gentoo/boot and ext3 fs |
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Hello all:
In following the instructions for stage1 cd install, I ran into a little bit of trouble when attempting
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tar -xvfjpf /cdroot/nocompress/stage1blah.....
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This command exited with a
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tar: Error blah....
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When looking through the rest of the output, I noted that the tar command hiccuped when it came to putting stuff in /mnt/gentoo/home. For me, I had made this a separate partition (/dev/hda1) and mounted it previously with
| Code: | | mount /dev/hda1 /mnt/gentoo/home |
The tar command was complaining about a "read only file system." When I typed mount, it listed this partition as being of type "vfs." Well, I unmounted it and remounted it specifying the ext3 type:
| Code: | umount /dev/hda1
mount /dev/hda1 /mnt/gentoo/boot -t ext3 |
This did the trick, as verified by typing mount without any arguments. The tarball then extracted without error. Hope this helps someone else. Anyone have any idea why this would occur.
I had previously created an ext3 fs on /dev/hda1 so...
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pjp
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| Posted: Sat Sep 21, 2002 5:29 am Post subject: |
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Don't know if a reason is known. However, it is known that mount /blah/blah (without -t option) somtimes does this. I'm not certain if it is unique to ext3 or not. Using -t solves it (as you discovered).
Anyone more enlightened?
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rojaro
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| Posted: Sat Sep 21, 2002 2:36 pm Post subject: Re: tar: Error.... with /mnt/gentoo/boot and ext3 fs |
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| ahenrick wrote: | Hello all:
In following the instructions for stage1 cd install, I ran into a little bit of trouble when attempting
| Code: | | tar -xvfjpf /cdroot/nocompress/stage1blah..... |
This command exited with a
| Code: | | tar: Error blah.... |
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of course it does as your tar commandline switches contain an error ... f must be always the last parameter before the file which it should use and it should never appear twice. also the - is not nessecary (but that doesnt matter much) - therefore your command line should be: | Code: | | tar xvjpf /cdroot/nocompress/stage1blah..... |
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ahenrick
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| Posted: Sat Sep 21, 2002 5:02 pm Post subject: that was a typo in my post |
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The f flag occuring twice was a typo in my original post. The substance of the error actually does occur as posted (the fs is mounted "vfs"). Obviously, since I got the tar command to work the second time around I am not a dolt. This post was only for the benifit of others.
Thanks for proofreading.
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rth
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| Posted: Mon Sep 23, 2002 5:42 pm Post subject: |
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| I am getting an error and will try this tonight when I'm home... Although I followed the guide and used the XFS file system instead of ext3. Should I put xfs instead of ext3 at the end of the mount command? |
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rac
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| Posted: Mon Sep 23, 2002 10:19 pm Post subject: Re: tar: Error.... with /mnt/gentoo/boot and ext3 fs |
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| rojaro wrote: | | f must be always the last parameter before the file which it should use |
What's your resource for this one? I can't confirm it.
| Code: | $ tar --version
tar (GNU tar) 1.13.25
$ touch afo
$ tar fc afo.tar afo
$ tar ft afo.tar
afo |
EDIT: Thanks to Naan Yaar for pointing out that tar behaves the way rojaro describes if the options are preceeded by a '-'.
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